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About Vi & Our Team

Vi is a new way to discover memorable food and wine pairings.

Vi is a collaboration between wine, food, and data science professionals. Our aim is to build tools that help wine amateurs and enthusiasts alike discover new, interesting wines from around the world – and incredible, diverse wine and food pairings. The current version of the site is an early-stage "beta" release that we're improving daily. Over the remainder of 2023, expect a range of updates including many new dishes and wines, the ability to pair virtually any recipe, and ways to find and buy the wines recommended here.

We're at the beginning of our journey and hope you'll come along for the ride.

Alessandra Andreani

WSET Diploma|Pairing Data and Writing

Alessandra is a wine writer and translator based in Trieste, Italy.

Çağlar Aytekin, Ph.D.

Data Scientist|Pairing Model Development

Çağlar is a Machine Learning & AI researcher based in Tampere, Finland.

Nadjet Bouyad-Agha, Ph.D.

Data Scientist|Wine and Food Knowledge Graph

Nadjet is an NLP, semantic data modeling and knowledge representation expert based in Barcelona, Spain.

Theodoros Gkrimpizis, Ph.D.

Ph.D Viticulture & Oenology|Wine Pairing Data

Theo is a Ph.D. oenologist and viticulturist based in Thessaloniki, Greece.

John Kaminsky

CMS Certified Sommelier|Founder

John is a data and digital product strategist based in New York City.

Rochelle Keet

MS Food Science|Food Data Set Creation

Rochelle is a food scientist and writer based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Alexandra Khilova

MA, Université de Bordeaux|Social Media

Alexandra is a wine marketing and tourism professional based in Madeira, Portugal.

Rusty Rastello

CMS Advanced Sommelier|Wine Pairing

Rusty is a wine investor and sommelier, recently Exec Wine Director at SingleThread Farm in Sonoma and Asst Wine Director at Eleven Madison Park in New York City.

Lucie Robson

WSET 3|Wine Writing

Lucie is a wine writer and journalist based in London, England.

Mladen Sovilj

BS Viticulture & Enology|Wine Data Set Creation

Mladen is a wine data specialist based in Belgrade, Serbia.

Melanie Stirner

Designer|UI and Interaction Design

Melanie is a digital designer based in Hamburg, Germany.

Krystal Wen

WSET Diploma, MBA Burgundy School of Business| Wine Data Set Creation

Krystal is a wine data specialist currently studying for the Master of Wine, based in London, England.

Alison Wong

MS Food Anthropology|Food Data Set Creation

Alison is a food anthropologist and researcher based in London, England.

Serhiy Zaporozhets

Data Engineer|Data Infrastructure and Pipelines

Serhiy is a data engineer based in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.